Idle Musings of a Delphi Junkie

Welcome to the Blog of David Clegg. I am a hard-core Delphi fan, so most of my posts will probably reflect this.

Friday, April 23, 2004

Macros.. a little slow on the uptake

I've been using IDEs (mainly Delphi) for nearly 6 years, but I've only recently discovered the joys of keystroke macros. For the uninitiated, they provide the mechanism to save a series of keystrokes which can then be repeatedly played back. Very nice. I first started using them in VS.NET 2003 to assist with the creating of properties from cut'n'pasted member declarations, and since then have never looked back. Here are some common keyboard shortcuts to assist with using them: